A book of quotations can never be complete. [ Robert M. Hamilton ]

"I feel that we should all be made aware of that site and that it should remain intact. Coal mining has made resurgence and with every tragedy comes a benefit and the benefit from the Orient 2 explosion is that new federal laws were enacted that no doubt saved other miners’ lives. This site has been and it remains an important part of the nation’s history concerning coal mining and it’s located right here in Franklin County." – Bob Rea

"I feel that we should all be made aware of that site and that it should remain intact. Coal mining has made resurgence and with every tragedy comes a benefit and the benefit from the Orient 2 explosion is that new federal laws were enacted that no doubt saved other miners’ lives. This site has been and it remains an important part of the nation’s history concerning coal mining and it’s located right here in Franklin County." – Bob Rea

« I feel that we should all be made aware of that site and that it should remain intact. Coal mining has made resurgence and with every tragedy comes a benefit and the benefit from the Orient 2 explosion is that new federal laws were enacted that no doubt saved other miners’ lives. This site has been and it remains an important part of the nation’s history concerning coal mining and it’s located right here in Franklin County. » – Bob Rea

"How long can men thrive between walls of… "How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?" - Charles Lindbergh